Word: caravaneers
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...once part of the powerful Mali Empire that stretched from the French Sudan, on the upper reaches of the Niger, to just short of West Africa's Atlantic Coast. When its 14th century ruler, the Mansa (Sultan) Musa, made his pilgrimage to Mecca, he traveled with a caravan of 60,000 men, and among his camels were 80 that each bore 300 Ibs. of gold. He built his wife a swimming pool in the desert, and filled it with water borne in skins by his slaves; he turned the fabled city of Timbuktu into a trading center...
Double Doors. Near Trenton, N.J., the caravan pulled up at a Howard Johnson roadside restaurant. Mikoyan breakfasted at the counter (tomato juice, toast, marmalade, coffee), and, as the Soviet Union's chief dispenser of consumer goods, studied with fascination a popcorn maker, gum and cigarette vending machines. At Perryville, Md., the cars stopped at the pink stucco Oakcrest Motel. Through an interpreter Mikoyan braced the astonished owner: Did he make a profit? ("That's what we're in business for.") Why did the units have two doors? ("One's a storm door.") Did his family help...
...regular policemen who were herded into the caravan of trucks one night last week knew nothing of their assignment: they were simply told that they were being moved out into the country. But as the trucks drove through the streets of Accra, the officers in charge would order them halted at certain houses, would declare that there was something strange going on inside, and would then march in and arrest the owner. Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah's Voice of Ghana told his people just what the mysterious roundup was all about. A plot, by something called the "Zenith Seven...
After that, snaking through Washington Street came a car caravan with the Mayors of Woburn, Malden, Melrose. Chelsea, Somerville, and Watertown. The procession reached Loew's Orpheum in twenty minutes. They were expected. Huge banners hung across Washington Street, and a bank of gigantic revolving search-lights striped the air white and red. By the time the important guests began to arrive, the crowd was a panting mass of humanity. Police lines were trampled and girls screamed...
...summer place near the big Maine house in which Nelson Rockefeller was born. But currently all the houses are increasingly lonely. Both oldest son Rodman, 26, and daughter Ann, 24, have married, moved away; each has two children. Son Steven, 22, traveling with his father's campaign caravan this autumn, goes into the Army after Christmas. Only children left: Mary and Michael, 20, the only twins in the Rockefeller clan. Each of the children, in a particular tribute from their father, was informed well in advance that he was about to run for Governor...